TidalCycles log of changes

1.4.5 - Porter Brook

• Mini notation - @ (and its alias _) now accepts rational relative durations. E.g. a b@0.5 c d to make b have a half step (that would be the same as a@2 b c@2 c@d). This can also be patterned a b@<0.5 2> c d @yaxu #435
• Experimental reset function - stick in a pattern so it acts as though the cycle number was reset to 0, from the next cycle @yaxu
• Bugfix for setR in BootTidal.hs @yaxu
• Mini notation - !, @ and _ now work properly within {} and <>, e.g. <a b ! c!3 d> will repeat every 7 cycles @yaxu #369 #248
• Mini notation - @ and _ are now aliases for each other, e.g. a_3 is the same as a@3 as are _ and @ @yaxu #369
• Frame skipping on clock jumps now configurable @yaxu #567
• Sync between tidal instances now works straight away, without having to setcps @yaxu #569
• New while function for applying a function selectively according to a binary pattern @yaxu
• Lowercases aliases slowappend and fastappend for slowAppend and fastAppend respectively @yaxu
• Many tidal-parse updates @dktr0

1.4.4 - Chee Dale

• wrandcat (weighted randcat) @yaxu
• MIDI Sysex support #558 @yaxu
• Elements in an Open Sound Control path address can now be patterned #557
• 'once' now chooses a random cycle to play. To get the old behaviour of playing the first cycle, use 'first' @yaxu #476
• Make random choices in mini-notation behave independently @yaxu #560
• Add [a|b|c] syntax to mini notation for randomly choosing between subsequences @yaxu #555
• Add power pattern operators |**, | and || @yaxu

1.4.3 - Stanage Edge

• Fix for xfade / xfadein transition
• New function plyWith

1.4.2 - Higger Tor

• Fix for 'nudge'

1.4.1 - Carl Wark

• improvements to handling of cps changes @yaxu #501
• fix for parameter patterning in 'range' @yaxu #547

1.4.0 - Padley Gorge

• fix representation to handle continuous and analog events properly @yaxu

1.3.0 - rolled back to 1.1.2

1.2.0 - Hunters Bar

• Simplify <* and *>, removing any distinction between analogue and digital patterns

1.1.2 - Eccy Road

• Usability fix for binary / binaryN (use squeezeJoin on input pattern)

1.1.1 - Chelsea Park

• Usability fixes for binary / binaryN / ascii @yaxu

1.1.0 - Brincliffe Edge

• binary and ascii functions for playing with bit patterns @yaxu
• support chord inversions in chord parser @bgold-cosmos
• skip ticks when system clock jumps @yaxu
• fix crash bugs in mini notation parser and grp @yaxu
• new stitch function @yaxu
• |++, ++| and |++| for combining patterns of strings by concatenation @yaxu
• send best effort of a sound id to dirt / superdirt if sendParts is on, allowing parameter adjustment of previously triggered sound (without chopping) @yaxu
• qtrigger - quantise trigger to nearest cycle @yaxu
• add setI, setF et al to BootTidal.hs for setting state variables @yaxu
• BootTidal.hs now sends d1 .. d12 to orbits 0 .. 11 respectively @yaxu
• markov chain support with runMarkov and markovPat @bgold-cosmos
• simplify / fix mask and sew @yaxu
• Adjust <* and > (and therefore |+, +| etc) to be closer to <>, explanation here: https://penelope.hypotheses.org/1722 @yaxu
• extract minitidal into its own package tidal-parse (using cabal multipackages), renaming to Sound.Tidal.Parse @yaxu @dktr0
• benchmarking @nini-faroux
• minitidal refactor, support for parsing more of tidal, tests @dktr0

1.0.14 - IICON

• 'chew' - like bite, but speeds playback rate up and down
• variable probability for ? in mini notation
• chooseBy takes modulo of index to avoid out of bounds errors
• 'rate' control param
• Fix dependencies for parsec/colour

1.0.13 - 🐝⌛️🦋 #2

• Simplify espgrid support - @yaxu

1.0.12 - 🐝⌛️🦋

• Fix ESPGrid support - @dktr0
• Add 'snowball' function - @XiNNiW

1.0.11 - Cros Bríde

2019-04-17 Alex McLean alex@slab.org * Add bite function for slicing patterns (rather than samples) * Tweak tidal.el to attempt to infer location of default BootTidal.hs * Skip time (forward or backward) if the reference clock jumps suddenly * Fix fit - @bgold-cosmos * Remove 'asap' * Add cB for boolean control input * pickF for choosing between functions with a pattern of integers * select for choosing between list of patterns with a floating point pattern * squeeze for choosing between list of patterns with a pattern of integers, where patterns are squeezed into the integer event duration * splice for choosing between slices of a pattern, where the slices are squeezed into event duration * Ord and Eq instances for value type @bgold-cosmos * trigger - support for resetting envelopes on evaluation * Support for rational event values * Tweak how *> and <* deal with analog patterns * Caribiner link bridge support

1.0.10 - This machine also kills fascists

• Add exports to Sound.Tidal.Scales for getScale and scaleTable

1.0.9 - This machine kills fascists

• sec and msec functions for converting from seconds to cycles (for stut etc) @yaxu
• template haskell upper bounds @yaxu
• fix for multi-laptop sync/tempo sharing @yaxu
• fix toScale so it doesn't break on empty lists @bgold-cosmos
• deconstruct function for displaying patterns stepwise @yaxu
• djf control ready for new superdirt dj filter @yaxu
• getScale for handrolling/adding scales to scale function * Add djf control for upcoming superdirt dj filter @yaxu

1.0.8 (trying to get back to doing these,

see also https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Changes_in_Tidal_1.0.x

for earlier stuff)

• Add 'to', 'toArg' and 'from' controls for new superdirt routing experiments - @telephon
• Fixes for squeezeJoin (nee unwrap') - @bgold-cosmos
• Simplify cycleChoose, it is now properly discrete (one event per cycle) - @yaxu
• The return of <>, infix alias for overlay - @yaxu
• Fix for wedge to allow 0 and 1 as first parameter - @XiNNiW
• Support for new spectral fx - @madskjeldgaard
• Fix for _euclidInv - @dktr0
• chordList for listing chords - @XiNNiW
• new function soak - @XiNNiW
• tempo fixes - @bgold-cosmos
• miniTidal developments - @dktr0
• potentially more efficient euclidean patternings - @dktr0
• unit tests for euclid - @yaxu
• fix for sometimesBy - @yaxu

0.9.10 (and earlier missing versions from this log)

• arpg, a function to arpeggiate
• within', an alternate within with a different approach to time, following discussion here https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/issues/313
• sine et al are now generalised so can be used as double or rational patterns
• New Sound.Tidal.Simple module with a range of simple transformations (faster, slower, higher, lower, mute, etc)
• slice upgraded to take a pattern of slice indexes
• espgrid support
• lindenmayerI
• sew function, for binary switching between two patterns
• somecycles alias for someCycles
• ply function, for repeating each event in a pattern a given number of times within their original timespan
• patternify juxBy, e, e', einv, efull, eoff

0.9.7

Enhancements

• The note pattern parameter is no longer an alias for midinote, but an independent parameter for supercollider to handle (in a manner similar to up)

0.9.6

Enhancements

• Added chord for chord patterns and scaleP for scale patterns
• The n pattern parameter is now floating point

0.9.5

Enhancements

• Added hurry which both speeds up the sound and the pattern by the given amount.
• Added stripe which repeats a pattern a given number of times per cycle, with random but contiguous durations.
• Added continuous function cosine
• Turned more pattern transformation parameters into patterns - spread', striateX, every', inside, outside, swing
• Added experimental datatype for Xenakis sieves
• Correctly parse negative rationals
• Added breakUp that finds events that share the same timespan, and spreads them out during that timespan, so for example (breakUp "[bd,sn]") gets turned into the "bd sn"
• Added fill which 'fills in' gaps in one pattern with events from another.

0.9.4

Fixes

• Swapped - for .. in ranges as quick fix for issue with parsing negative numbers
• Removed overloaded list thingie for now, unsure whether it's worth the dependency

0.9.3

Enhancements

• The sequence parser can now expand ranges, e.g. "0-3 4-2" is equivalent to "[0 1 2 3] [4 3 2]"
• Sequences can now be described using list syntax, for example sound ["bd", "sn"] is equivalent to sound "bd sn". They aren't lists though, so you can't for example do sound (["bd", "sn"] ++ ["arpy", "cp"]) -- but can do sound (append ["bd", "sn"] ["arpy", "cp"])
• New function linger, e.g. linger (1/4) will only play the first quarter of the given pattern, four times to fill the cycle.
• discretise now takes time value as its first parameter, not a pattern of time, which was causing problems and needs some careful thought.
• a rel alias for the release parameter, to match the att alias for attack
• _fast alias for _density
• The start of automatic testing for a holy bug-free future

Fixes

• Fixed bug that was causing events to double up or get lost, e.g. where rev was combined with certain other functions.